Word: predurki
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...Seek a Protector." Inside the camps in Russia's "classless" society, a strict class system developed. At the bottom were dokhodyagi, "persons who had lost resemblance to the human form ..." Next came the rabotyagi, "who had not yet lost their strength," the urki (criminals), finally the predurki, the camp aristocrats who worked in the administration. Though "sexual intercourse ... is a punishable offense, the conditions of life give a woman no choice but to seek a protector among the camp aristocracy...
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